Word: rga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cliffies chose the Radcliffe Union of Students, an autonomous student government with four members on the College Council, to replace RGA. But under the RGA Constitution any changes have to be approved by the College Council...
While awaiting the action of the Council, the officers of RGA will plan the January election for their successors, the seven officers of RUS. Two of those seven will be elected to serve on the Council...
Aida Chang '68, vice-president of RGA, said last week that if the elections are held before the presence of student members on the Council is approved, "the two elected representatives to the Council will work on legitimizing themselves...
...structure the two are very similar. But their impact would be very different. The Undergraduate Association is essentially RGA revamped. Proponents claim that its smaller size (35 representatives to RGA's 60) will make student government less unwieldy and therefore more effective. This is not necessarily true. RGA's greatest weakness was its inability to transmit student opinion to the administration, despite Mrs. Bunting's religious attendance at the often deadly boring meetings. It is hard to see in what mysterious ways a smaller student government could enliven these meetings; it is impossible to see how a difference in size...
...four students on the Council will never be able to outvote their elders. So a vote for RUS is not necessarily a vote for confrontation politics, as was suggested by one student at last week's RGA meeting. It is a responsible expression of the need for more communication at all levels of the College. Both the students and the Council should take advantage of this opportunity...